"You mean I'm riding with Death?"

[maddezmom]

Four Horsemen tackle convoy duty in Iraq

CAMP ADDER, Iraq - The soldiers call themselves the Four Horsemen as they barrel down roads with nicknames like "The Widowmaker," staying alert through the night on a mix of Mountain Dew, Red Bull and adrenaline, hoping to find roadside bombs before the bombs find them.

There's always some out there. There's a threat every night," said Sgt. Brian Parker, 36, of Mankato, Minn., part of a four-Humvee convoy escort team based at Camp Adder, about 200 miles southwest of Baghdad.

Guarding convoys remains one of the most dangerous assignments in Iraq despite billions of dollars spent armoring Humvees and developing equipment to detect and evade bombs. Insurgents constantly use new ways to hit the troops on their long supply routes, and the soldiers struggle to keep pace with the changing threat.

In keeping with their biblical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse theme, the soldiers' Humvees are named War, Death, Famine and Pestilence. "You mean I'm riding with Death?" asked a truck driver they were protecting.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060907/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_dangerous_highways


Ah, yes George things are so much better in Iraq

[Spinzonner]

1. I thought those were members of Bush's cabinet

[maddezmom]

2. someone should do a photoshop

:)

[Richard Steele]

4. Those are NOT names to be taken lightly. Them boys is askin for TROUBLE.

TROUBLE of Biblical proportions.

"As ye sow, so shall ye REAP one hundredfold.
Them as what sows the Wind, shall
suck the business end of the tornado..."

Loosely translated, of course.

[az chela]

5. What a beautiful comment about the dream about Ray Charles.

He saw things that most of us will never see.He better be waiting where all the great entertainers are that have passed on cause thats where I plan on going

[Richard Steele]

6. That just MUST be an important message!

I have gotten SO MANY comments upon that new SigLine.

And I put it there because I was spending an afternoon
loading some of our old CDs onto the LaCie disk the other
week, and I clicked the wrong thing...
And my Sweetie's Joan Osbourne CD started to PLAY while
getting uploaded, and the first track started with that
line.

It's a KOAN...I have no idea what it means, but my
gut tells me it's damned meaningful.

KnowhutImean?

[SoCalDem]

3. Soldiers patrolling for IEDS, to protect the convoys

who must drive the roads to supply the soldiers who patrol for the IEDS.. and so it goes:eyes:

[ClintonTyree]

7. Makes you wonder........

what these guys are going to be like when they have to become re-acclimated into American society. Thousands of ticking time bombs who have become adrenalin junkies looking for death and destruction. You just can't flick a switch and turn these these guys off. I see trouble brewing.

[GeorgeGist]

8. I'm so uplifted and proud...

that these US soldiers would chose to honor the theme of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Now that's a mission worth accomplishing!
















:sarcasm: in case you missed it.

[Tellurian]

9. They do it because they're scared half to death..

The Four Horseman represent "invincibility"..
You can't tell me when these soldiers come home they
be able to synthesize themselves back into society
without any mental problems.

They will be reliving their frightening terror every night in their dreams.